Example sentences of "as [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheers as cruel farmer is jailed |
| 2 | The threat comes as European Drug Prevention Week begins . |
| 3 | JUST as European science budgets are recovering from the cost of the LEP ( Large Electron-Positron ) particle collider at CERN , the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva , governments are now being asked to cough up £500 million for a Large Hadron Collider there . |
| 4 | St. Clement Danes was an old-fashioned school which would have liked to have been more middle class than it was Unfortunately most of the kids came from the White City Estate which is about as working class as you can get |
| 5 | For example , middle class women were as convinced as working class women by the medical profession 's call for hospitalised childbirth , although just as working class women wanted what they regarded as the additional bonus of hospital rest , so middle class women also saw the availability of anaesthesia as a major reason for welcoming the trend to hospital births . |
| 6 | Just as working class girls were included in the state provision of elementary education in 1870 and provided with an education which emphasised the virtues of good housewifery and domestic management , so the increased attention paid to the education of middle class girls during the late Victorian period — by male bureaucrats as well as female pioneers — may be seen as being as much a result of the general educational reform initiative of the period as of feminist ambition . |
| 7 | In the two schools in which I spent much of my working life ( one as head , one as assistant teacher responsible for physical education ) the broad aims were almost identical and may be summed up as follows : the creation of a living community of children in which the Arts , music , painting and poetry flourished ; where social awareness came before selfish intolerance ; where the written and spoken word was valued as a means to a more distant educational end rather than as an end in itself ; where understanding of number was regarded as more important than the ability to manipulate figures . |
| 8 | And as 7-4 favourite on Thursday , he beat Espry and Bortaceva over three miles at Wincanton . |
| 9 | Dykstra was in exceptional form for Motherwell but Rangers ' persistence paid off just as persistent fouling put Motherwell 's new recruit , Ally Graham , into the referee 's notebook on his debut . |
| 10 | This was essentially a gentle action and it ensured that as little corn as possible would be shed and lost on the ground . |
| 11 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 12 | Economy is just one of the reasons why she travels light , choosing to use as little equipment as possible . |
| 13 | Economy is just one of the reasons why she travels light , choosing to use as little equipment as possible . |
| 14 | After this it comes as little surprise to learn that ‘ the earth was corrupt in God 's sight , and the earth was filled with violence ’ ( Gen. 6.11 ) . |
| 15 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 16 | It thus comes as little surprise to find that police and fans share similar commonsense conceptions of territoriality , and that their accounts of what goes on during ‘ raids ’ on Ends have much in common . |
| 17 | Publicly-controlled since 1943 , and a loss-maker for much of the period since , it came as little surprise when , Chris Patten , a junior Northern Ireland minister , announced plans for privatisation in 1988 . |
| 18 | It should come as little surprise that some of those who feel they have no stake in ‘ official ’ society should react in a way that demonstrates their exclusion . |
| 19 | If , as has been suggested above , insider evaluation is primarily associated with curriculum improvement , it comes as little surprise that proposals for particular approaches are directly or indirectly related to models of curriculum design and development . |
| 20 | It came as little surprise to the Commission in its work to be reminded both of the rich diversity which exists in the field of church music and of the very different attitudes and preferences to be found within our congregations . |
| 21 | It came as little surprise , therefore , that the close relationship appeared to be unaffected by Iraq 's August invasion of Kuwait . |
| 22 | ( It should come as little surprise that it showed a deficit , albeit of only £55,000 . ) |
| 23 | Considering Renault 's pioneering work in turbocharging for both road and track , it comes as little surprise that the power delivery is so smooth and strong though even Renault engineers have been unable to iron out the last fraction of a second of lag between the throttle being floored and the turbo-pressure rising . |
| 24 | Under our system , it falls to the police to ensure that such events are organised in such a way that disorder does not ensue , and that so far as is possible , the event can take place with as little dislocation to the ordinary life of the community as is compatible with the proper exercise of freedom of speech in public . |
| 25 | Lighting should be fairly subdued and filtration arranged to give as little surface disturbance as possible . |
| 26 | Rainfall is uncertain and varied — drought years may be as many as one in five ; many soils are eroded and soil quality may vary within as little space as a hectare ; even small-scale irrigation may be ineffective as high levels of ‘ run-off ’ prevent the efficient use of water . |
| 27 | Our unconscious acknowledgement of this at the time lay in taking up as little space as possible , not being a nuisance . |
| 28 | Western ‘ aid ’ in the mental-health field must change gear to address the needs of the people it is supposed to help : concentrate on the villages and towns where most poor people live ; require as little capital investment and new training as possible ; and make the maximum use of local talent and resources . |
| 29 | Surprisingly , though , small pahoehoe lavas can pour into the sea with as little disturbance as cream poured into coffee , there is a little steam , but little else . |
| 30 | ‘ When they are necessary I try to arrange that they cause as little disturbance as possible . ’ |